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LA Times runs huge Michael Phelps photo mosaic for gold medal No. 8

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Robb Montgomery
on August 18, 2008
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Tour this giant moasic poster produced by the Los Angeles Times. (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.)

Mosaic by Charis Tsevi, Los Angeles Times

This is the Tribune’s “Summer of Redesign” and all eyes will soon be on the Los Angeles Times to see what they will accomplish in their makeover. I am expecting groundbreaking things - talent runs deep there as evidenced by this digital illustration produced on deadline by Charis.

From his Flickr entry:

Last Thursday I received a mail from Derek Simmons, Deputy Design Director of Los Angeles Times. Derek proposed to me an exciting as well as very honoring job. He wanted me to produce a portrait of the incredible Michael Phelps for the Monday’s Edition of The Times.
Let’s hope he is going to make it, wrote to me.
The whole last week, Derek and I exchanged rough sketches, photos, ideas while Michael was beating one record after the other. We had so little time, as Michael was racing almost every day and we had to keep the portrait updated.
Finally, he did it in the already known incredible way.
So, this is our tribute to him and his incredible record. It’s published in today’s (Aug 18th, 2008) edition of the Los Angeles Times.

Yes, it is done with software (Synthetik Studio Artist) but good luck getting a piece to look this good using the drag and drop menu items. The artist also used Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro and some secret sauce - custom developed scripts and techniques.

Los Angeles Times

Charis adds that you can download this page including this portrait here. (Located on the bottom right of the page in the “Download Olympic Posters.”

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A million reasons to love the Library of Congress

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Robb Montgomery
on January 20, 2008
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[Germany Schaefer, Washington AL (baseball)] (LOC)

This digital image represents the millionth item scanned for the Prints & Photographs Division at the Library of Congress.

This photo shows Herman A. “Germany” Schaefer (1877-1919), one of the most entertaining characters in baseball history, trying out the other side of the camera during the Washington Senators visit to play the New York Highlanders in April, 1911.

It is part of two collections the LOC has uploaded to Flickr where the public is invited to comment, share, download and discover thousands of news photos from the 1910s and 1920s as well as earily beautiful color photos from the 1930s and 1940s.

Let the slideshow play - there’s 1,610 photo here taken by photographers for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI). They created the images between 1939 and 1944. Note, Ektachrome and Kodachrome were just invented and the kodachrome emulsion is has always been a particular favorite of photogs because it is a grainless emulsion that offers deeply saturated colors and stellar flesh tones. Here you can see clearly why a love affair with Kodachrome is lifelong. I think i still have some rolls in the fridge somewhere - waiting to go into my F3.

This slide show of 1,500 photos from the daily news scene of almost a hundred years ago, was photographed by the Bain News Service in about 1910-1912.

This is but a slice of the 40,000 glass negatives that the collection preserves.
For more information and to see the rest of the collection

The wisdom of the crowd
The Library of Congress wants to get richer data attached to the photos and that is where opening the collection up on Flickr comes in. Like most photo archives - librarians rely primarily on the identifying information that came with the original photos. .
According to the LOC, “that text can be incomplete and is even inaccurate at times. We welcome your contribution of names, descriptions, locations, tags, and also your general reactions.”

Oh there are so many lesson here for news executives . . . I’ll put them in bullet form (The language of CEOs)

  1. Post content that can be embedded.
  2. Openly engage and empower your audience.
  3. Focus on your local expertise.
  4. Create a viral marketing buzz.
  5. Simply do something remarkable and profound with free, open social media sharing tools like Flickr.

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The correctable journalist

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Robb Montgomery
on September 11, 2007
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CAIRO: View of a church and satellite dish packed rooftops taken from the 20th floor of the Marriott Hotel on the island of Zamalek (Also known as al guezirah)

I uploaded this photo to a set that included photos from the bazaar in old Cairo. I batch uploaded it and the caption said this was on Moez Ledeen Ellah Street - which it was clearly not.
Another flickr user pointed this out in a comment and I got better information about what the scene was really showing. So I used it.

Ah, indeed a miracle, the correctable journalist!

Before


Before picture with incorrect caption information provided by the batch upload.

The corrected picture


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